After finishing third to Oklahoma's Sam Bradford and Texas' Colt McCoy, Florida's junior quarterback said that not becoming the second to win multiple Heismans will not have any impact on his decision to leave for the NFL or return for his senior season.

But what happens in the BCS national championship game could.

"Would that (winning a second Heisman) have been great? Absolutely," Tebow said. "Do I want it? Yeah, but is that a goal? No, it's different. I don't think that will make any difference in my decision to go or stay.

"It would be more to hopefully win a third national championship."

Florida and Oklahoma meet in Miami on Jan. 8.

It's the Gators' second national championship game appearance in three seasons. They beat Ohio State 41-14 in 2006.

Tebow was a part-time player on that team, but he has compiled a 21-4 record as a starting quarterback and won the 2007 Heisman Trophy and the 2008 Southeastern Conference championship.

That has put him in the position of potentially bypassing his senior season and declaring for the NFL Draft. Now that the Heisman is done, the only suspense remaining in Gainesville surrounds the title game and Tebow's decision.

He said again Saturday that he has not thought about it much.

Tebow has yet to submit his paperwork to the NFL's draft advisory committee to get an evaluation and said he will not make his decision until after the national championship game.

A quick examination of draft experts isn't positive. ESPN.com's Todd McShay, the director of college football scouting for Scouts Inc., doesn't list Tebow among his top underclassmen prospects.

"If Tebow will get drafted as a quarterback, I wouldn't take him in the first two rounds," McShay said in a recent interview on ESPN radio. "While he has the size and the arm strength, he's an erratic passer at times. His delivery, if you watch him, it takes three days for him to get the ball out. Defensive backs in the NFL will eat him alive for it.

"He may be one of the top five players ever to play college football, but he is not a great pro prospect at the quarterback position," McShay said.

A scout for an AFC team, who requested anonymity because he is prohibited from talking about underclassmen until they declare, said playing in a spread offense and carrying the ball hurt Tebow because scouts can't evaluate him in a pro-style offense.

They don't know if he can take snaps from center, make reads while dropping back and look for his third our fourth option on the play.

"You're speculating he can learn things and he can do things," the scout said. "You're taking, to me, a huge risk by taking him very high.

"Our game, even though the SEC is fast, because of the complication of our game, our game is so much faster mentally and physically, and at the quarterback position, it's magnified enormously."

There's talk of Tebow changing positions, playing as an H-back, tight end or fullback.

"Obviously, I'll do whatever I can to help that team, but my goal is to be a quarterback," Tebow said.

"Ever since I was young, some people have liked me as a quarterback and others are like, man, you could play fullback or do this, but my dream has always been to be a quarterback," he said.

That people are doubting him again - just like they did in the months before he made his first start for the Gators last season - is motivation for the junior.

"Maybe if I change the way I played a little bit they'd look at me a little different," Tebow said. "If I just threw the ball and didn't run, didn't hit people, didn't get excited, maybe they'd look at me a little differently. I just use that as motivation.

"I believe in myself and have confidence that hopefully one day I can play at the next level."